The Cooper Union
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

John Bové
Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering

Education

Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, Case-Western Reserve University, 1973
M.S., Chemistry, Bucknell University, 1954; B.S., Bucknell University, 1949

Current research interests

Asymmetric epoxidation of drug precursors; organic reaction mechanisms, including chemistry of aziridines and benzyne; environmentally related chemical reactions, including trace analyses of airborne contaminants; applications of pattern recognition methods to spectroscopic analysis.

Courses

General Chemistry
Physical Principles of Chemistry
Organic Chemistry I
Organic Chemistry II
Organic Chemistry Laboratory
Advanced Organic Chemistry
Physical Organic Chemistry
Selected Topics in Chemistry
Research Problem I-VIII

Selected publications and presentations

  • "Computer-aided pattern recognition of organic infrared spectra," Shabsi Walfish, Timothy Sosnowski, Sara Shraibman, Lok Yung and John Bové, Internet Journal of Vibrational Spectroscopy 5, 2nd. ed. (2001)
  • "Computer-Aided Pattern Recognition of Organic Infrared Spectra," presentation to the August 2000 national meeting of the American Chemical Society, with Shabsi Walfish, Timothy Sosnowski, and Lok Yung
  • "The use of sonochemistry in the asymmetric epoxidation of substituted chalcones with sodium perborate tetrahydrate," Ruben Savizky, Nagi Suzuki, and John Bové, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 9, 3967-3969 (1998)
  • "Enantioselective Epoxidation by Means of Chiral Phase Transfer Catalysts and Chiral Bases in the Darzens Reaction and the Epoxidation of α-β Unsaturated Ketones," presentation to the 1998 NYC American Chemical Society's 46th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, with Tom Larrabee
  • "The Asymmetric Epoxidation of α-β Unsaturated Ketones," presentation to the 1998 NYC American Chemical Society's 46th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, with Ruben Savizky and Nagi Suzuki
  • "Rate and Yield Studies Involving the Oxidation of Ketones to Esters Using Sodium Perborate," presentation to the 1998 NYC American Chemical Society's 46th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, with Tom Schroeder
  • "Oxidation of aldehydes and ketones using alkali metal perborates," Patent No. 4,988,825 (1991)
  • "An application of pattern recognition and infrared spectroscopy to water analysis," Thomas Witelski, Phillip Ng, Jackie Ying, Joseph Lundy and John Bové, International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry 44, 127 (1991)